The groups that may end in the highest seven positions in the continuing World Cup after the top of the round-robin stage will qualify for the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 alongside hosts Pakistan. The qualification state of affairs of the eight-team occasion was accredited by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 2021 primarily based on a report in ESPNcricinfo.
After the completion of the twenty ninth match in the continuing ODI World Cup, groups like Bangladesh and the defending ODI world champions England discover themselves in ninth and tenth place on the factors desk.
The qualification state of affairs would imply that they may have to push arduous and make a splash to end in the highest seven by the top of the round-robin stage. England have misplaced 5 out of their six video games and are languishing on the backside of the factors desk whereas Bangladesh even have simply two factors out of six matches and are simply above the Three Lions by advantage of a greater internet run fee (NRR).
It additionally implies that a number of different full-member nations of the ICC like West Indies, Zimbabwe and Ireland would additionally not characteristic in the eight-team occasion as they failed to qualify for the continuing 50-over event in India.
Pakistan are the defending champions of the event. They had defeated their arch-rivals India in the summit conflict of the 2017 version by a mammoth margin of 180 runs to clinch the silverware below the management wicketkeeper-batter Sarfaraz Ahmed.
The first version of the showpiece occasion was performed in Bangladesh and was received by South Africa. Since then the event has witnessed eight editions and Australia is the one staff that has received the event twice – 2006 in India and 2009 in South Africa. India final received the event again in 2013 below the management of MS Dhoni.
